Long Beach woman accused of stealing $240,000 in gun accessories from Torrance dealer

A Long Beach woman who worked for a Torrance gun accessories dealer allegedly stole more than $240,000 of the company’s products and hoped to sell them on eBay, police said Wednesday.

Jeanette Natalie Guzman, 27, was arrested Jan. 21, a day after her employer reported her to police, saying she was on video carrying stolen merchandise to her car.

“I believe that the business was able to alert us prior to her actually selling the goods,” Torrance police Sgt. Robert Watt said. “So they were all recovered prior to going into the wrong hands.”

The owner of Arms Unlimited said Guzman came to work at his business Nov. 1 when he moved his company from Los Angeles to south Torrance. The business sells a variety of gun-related products, including body armor, gear, knives and tools, less lethal rounds, lights, lasers, magazines, optics and scopes.

The business operators discovered missing merchandise during an inventory and suspected theft. They checked their surveillance systems and found that the suspect had carried stolen property in a bag from the business to her car for 30 days, police said.

They suspected they were missing about $20,000 in property and called the police, Watt said.

Police served a search warrant Jan. 21 at the woman’s home and found $241,057 worth of property, including optics, scopes, magnifiers, lasers, sights, flashlights, training pistols and gun mounts.

“It’s stuff she could easily conceal inside a bag and carry right out,” Watt said.

In her job, Guzman answered phones and dealt with customers, the owner said. The business sells products online but caters to police officers and military personnel.